Faith & Spirit Quote by Edwin Louis Cole

The line flips a familiar religious posture on its head. Instead of faith as a one-way human act aimed upward, Edwin Louis Cole turns it into a two-way relationship: you trust God, and God is imagined as trusting you back. That reversal is the engine. It smuggles responsibility into what can otherwise become passive piety. If God has faith in you, you are no longer just a supplicant waiting for rescue; you are a delegate expected to act.

Cole wrote as a Christian men’s movement figure in late-20th-century American evangelical culture, where “faith” often gets framed as comfort amid instability: economic shifts, changing gender roles, moral panic, personal failure. This sentence answers that mood with reassurance that is also a gentle shove. It’s pastoral, but it’s also managerial: you’ve been entrusted with something, so quit hesitating.

The subtext is about dignity and agency. Many religious slogans lean on human unworthiness; Cole’s version stakes a claim that you are, in some sense, reliable. That’s emotionally potent for audiences trained to see themselves as perpetually falling short. It also avoids the harshness of self-help individualism by grounding action in divine confidence rather than personal grit.

There’s a quiet rhetorical risk, too: “God has faith in you” anthropomorphizes God, giving the divine a kind of optimistic investment portfolio in human character. That’s not systematic theology so much as motivational spirituality, designed to be memorable, repeatable, and ethically mobilizing. It comforts, but it also drafts you into the story.